VIDEO: Man Stabs Baby And Her Mom In Front Of Cops, Baby Saved With Tourniquet

HollyMatkin

May 12, 2018

Bodycam footage showed an Arkansas man as he slashed his child and her mother with a steak knife.

Jonesboro, AR – A child custody exchange turned violent on April 29, when a man stabbed his toddler and the girl’s mother with a steak knife, bodycam footage showed (video below).

The incident occurred just before 7 p.m., when Jonesboro police officers went to the apartment of 37-year-old Theodis Coleman to conduct a civil standby while a woman picked up her 2-year-old daughter, Arkansas Online reported.

The woman told investigators that Coleman had threatened her earlier in the day, and that he told her he would kill her and her family if she tried to take the child back into her care.

Bodycam footage showed the woman as she entered the apartment with the officers.

Coleman, who was seen carrying the couple’s child, complained about the officers’ presence, then walked down a hallway as the woman followed behind him.

Coleman walked into a room at the end of the hallway, and set the toddler on the ground.

“You didn’t have to call no police,” Coleman said, as the woman lifted the little girl into her arms.

Without notice, Coleman lunged at the woman with a knife raised above his head, the video showed.

According to police, the blade sliced through the toddler’s arm, and went into the woman’s arm, Arkansas Online reported.

The officer immediately drew his weapon, and screamed at Coleman to get onto the ground, while the woman ran out of the apartment with their child.

“I’ve been telling you the same s**t for years,” she said. “I told your a**, ‘Don’t let her go with no one.’”

“If a person tell you every time they tell you what they gonna do to you, and what they gonna do to your baby, anytime a motherf**ker tell me they gonna kill me, my baby, and themselves, I’m gonna believe them,” the girl’s aunt continued. “They ain’t gotta tell me a thousand god**ned times.”

The Jonesboro Police Department hailed the officers’ “discernment and quick actions,” and noted that the training they received from the Stop the Bleeding Foundation and the Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield was instrumental in helping the toddler and her mother, according to their Facebook post.

Watch the stabbing, and the officer’s heroic efforts to help the child, in the video below. WARNING - Graphic Content:

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LEO0301

May 12, 2018

Too bad he wasn't shot.

John-Brown

May 12, 2018

Would have been a good shoot too. I'm sure there will be a next time.

LaneysSis

May 12, 2018

Thank God for those officers! Now, where the hell was the mother when this baby was in such distress and attended to by the Aunt and the Officer? She even went back in the house after she took the baby outside to yell at the father . I pray for this child. because she may need it being raised like this.